Wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, has asked a Federal High Court sitting Lagos to unfreeze her accounts in which $8.4 million and N7.4 billion were domiciled.

The former first lady, through her counsel, yesterday, passionately argued with the trial judge, Justice Mojisola Olatoregun, why the accounts should be released.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had on April 20, 2018, through an ex parte application, obtained an interim forfeiture of the money.


After listening to Mrs. Jonathan’s counsel’s submission, the judge adjourned the case till November 13, 2018 to take video evidence and for the EFCC to explain why the accounts should remain frozen.

The EFCC had in the suit joined Globus Integrated Services Limited, Finchley Top Homes Limited, Am-Pm Global Network Limited, Pagmat Oil and Gas Limited and Magel Resort Limited and Esther Oba as respondents.

When the case was called yesterday, Rotimi Oyedepo appeared for the EFCC, Ifedayo Adedipe (SAN) appeared for the first respondent, Gboyega Oyewole (SAN) appeared for the second respondent, Mike Ozekhome (SAN) appeared for the third to sixth respondents, and Ige Asemudara appeared for the seventh respondent.

After the respondents’ counsel moved their various motions for regularisation of processes, the court asked the applicant to move his motion for final forfeiture.

Oyedepo told the court that the application for final forfeiture was dated May 8, 2018 seeking an order of the court for a final forfeiture of the sums of money listed in the application.

He added that his application with an affidavit deposed to on May 20, 2018 by Orji Chukwuma, an EFCC operative, told the court that he relies on the written averments, as well as exhibits EFCC 12 and 13, in support of his application.

Oyedepo further told the court that he also relies on the written address on the application and urged the court to grant the application for final forfeiture.

However, Adedipe urged the court to refuse the application for final forfeiture on the grounds that there were insufficient facts before the court to warrant a final order.

He argued that the sum of the applicant’s case is that it found monies in the first respondent’s account, which it said were reasonably suspected to be proceeds of unlawful activities.

He argued that the commission neither invited the respondent nor prosecuted her.

Adedipe also submitted that the applicant failed to take the preliminary steps, but sought an order of forfeiture, arguing that such practice fell short of prosecution procedures.

https://www.akelicious.net/2018/10/patience-jonathan-others-ask-court-to.html

$8.4 million and #7.4 billion?

Please, how could a first lady gather all that?

Devil sef dey fear Nigerian politicians.

Madam Dias God ooo

Lol

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Hmm. How did that woman acquire so much money legally

Whatever may happened, imagine having this money and millions of Nigerians are dying of hunger and frustration, this is bad

Wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, has asked a Federal High Court sitting Lagos to unfreeze her accounts in which $8.4 million and N7.4 billion were domiciled.

I present to you the multibillionaire civil servant.

This is the kind of people who long for a return to power for the PDP.

THIEVES... ..LOOTED FUNDS.. ..GOD BLESS AND PROTECT BUHARI...

This is why they want Atiku in

To return all the frozen money they looted which they start to live their flamboyant life style again wasting money on olosho that will make the people think all is well with naija economy


#neveragain

Stop posting fake news from you blog!
Efcc unfreezed her accounts since.

Nigeria has gone past that era!

Please don’t drag us backwards or confuse us! We are focused on 2019!
Zombie

Nigeria youth always surporting thieves

Very easy to unfreeze.
Mama Peace should tell us the sources of the funds, either through businesses or personal gifts.
Once that is verified to be legitimately acquired income, funds automatically goes back to you..

Fingers crossed.

bigmodo:
Hmm. How did that woman acquire so much money legally

ask akelicious.com

Blog way dem they post from blackberry bold 2

Mama peace, where is Papa peace

" $8.4 million and N7.4 billion were domiciled."


PDP looted the future of Nigeria

the fact that this woman is not in jail just shows how corrupt a nation we are

Codes151:
Stop posting fake news from you blog!
Efcc unfreezed her accounts since.

Nigeria has gone past that era!

Please don’t drag us backwards or confuse us! We are focused on 2019!
Zombie

See the real Zombie.

He does not want to hear or see anything about the corruption that has caused his present hunger, suffering and misery.

Worse still, he will cause himself with high BP, but his masters whom he defends have not made any provision for his healthcare, that is if he does not suffer a fatal road accident on his way to the hospital.

His consolation is that he will hurriedly go meet Tony Anenih in the afterlife, and ask him what happened to all the funds budgeted to his ministry of works from 1999 to 2002.

Tony Anenih will there and then promise to fix it.

Useless APC!!! So her accounts have not been released?

Nigerians have guts. If this was China or North Korea, this woman, along with many others, would have been executed siiinceee

so this woman is still alive in the court of efcc. wonderful. i thought she has been silenced by corruption

$8.4 million and N7.4 billion

Dia is God indeed

What kind of work and type of service will maké you get paid such outragoeous amounts.
With all the grammer she spewed out as first lady, she still got paid this sum
The court should tell the police to fish out the person and institution that pay her such

TOPCRUISE:
What kind of work will maké you get paid such amount

They should freeze Tinubu's own too

Make this woman go sit down jare. All she's known for now, apart from her terrible grammar is 'unfreeze my accounts'. Unfreeze ko. Is it your money?

Throwback:


See the real zombie

your own is to write without reading! Akelicious.com na news site?

Ta! Get away you!

Jaymaxxy:
$8.4 million and #7.4 billion?

Please, how could a first lady gather all that?

what about the dullard certificateless man's wife?
Nigerians have forgotten that issue of her ADC #2.5b case

Jaymaxxy:
$8.4 million and #7.4 billion?

Please, how could a first lady gather all that?

Via robbing the masses, stealing, looting, the same way all the useless criminal politicians have been doing since 1979 including the current useless APC led federal criminals, they all deserve to be arrested, flogged out of office and dumped into the sea to be eaten by sharks, useless APC and PDP satanic criminals feeding fat while the masses are dying